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On 18th June 1280 Abbot Richard of Ware was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In January 1284 Bishop John Kirkby was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 6th September 1296 Hugh de Cressingham was appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.
On 27th May 1317 Bishop John Hotham was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1320 Bishop Walter Stapledon [aged 58] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1322 Bishop Walter Stapledon [aged 60] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 26th November 1326 John de Straford [aged 51] was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 28th January 1327.
In January 1327 Bishop Adam Orleton was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until March 1327.
On 2nd May 1341 Robert Sadington was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 21st June 1340.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In 1362 Robert Assheton was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 1st February 1381 Robert Hales [aged 56] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1386 Bishop John Gilbert was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1398 William Scrope 1st Earl Wiltshire [aged 48] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1398 Bishop Guy Mone Aka Mohun was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1408 John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1422 Archbishop John Stafford was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1449 James Fiennes 1st Baron Saye and Sele [aged 54] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1452 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 24] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1454 James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde [aged 33] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Patent Rolls. 18th March 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. Grant, during the King's pleasure, to the King's kinsman Henry, Viscount Bourchier [aged 57], was appointed the office of treasurer of the Exchequer in the same manner as Walter Hungerford, knight, late treasurer.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1468 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 40] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
After 26th July 1469 John Lanstrother was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In October 1470 John Lanstrother was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 16th June 1501 Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk [aged 58] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1509 George Hepburn Bishop Isles [aged 55] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1572 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley [aged 51] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In September 1684 Sidney Godolphin 1st Earl Godolphin [aged 39] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd January 1687. There was now another change of the great officers. The Treasury was put into commission, two professed Papists among them, viz, Lords Bellasis [aged 72] and Dover [aged 51], joined with the old ones, Lord Godolphin [aged 41], Sir Stephen Fox [aged 59], and Sir John Ernley.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd January 1687. A Seal to confirm a gift of £4,000 per annum for 99 years to the Lord Treasurer out of the Post Office, and £1,700 per annum for ever out of Lord Grey's [aged 31] estate.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1689. Innumerable were the crowds, who solicited for, and expected offices; most of the old ones were turned out. Two or three white staves were disposed of some days before, as Lord Steward, to the Earl of Devonshire [aged 49]; Treasurer of the household, to Lord Newport; Lord Chamberlain to the King, to my Lord of Dorset [aged 46]; but there were as yet none in offices of the civil government save the Marquis of Halifax [aged 55] as Privy Seal. A council of thirty was chosen, Lord Derby [aged 34] president, but neither Chancellor nor Judges were yet declared, the new Great Seal not yet finished.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd May 1702. The report of the committee sent to examine the state of Greenwich Hospital [Map] was delivered to the House of Commons, much to their satisfaction. Lord Godolphin [aged 56] made Lord High Treasurer.
On 30th July 1714 Charles Talbot 1st Duke Shrewsbury [aged 54] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.